Robert May

Robert (Bob) May succeeded Sir Aaron Klug as President of the Royal Society in December 2000. Prior to that, May was the UK government's chief scientific advisor (1995-2000). He received a knighthood in 1996 and was subsequently made Baron May of Oxford. He has been based, like Sir John Krebs, in Oxford University's Zoology Department since 1988. He is a Royal Society research professor specialising in mathematical biology.

Pro-Nuclear
He retired from being the President of the Royal Society in December 2005. Before his retirement from the RS, Lord May was another leading scientist who argued that it was "wishful thinking" that Britain could meet its energy needs with renewables alone. "The truth is that it will be difficult for Britain to lead the way on climate change in the mid-term future without building new nuclear power stations," he wrote in his Daily Telegraph opinion column in September 2004. 

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